Upendra Kushwaha resigns as Union minister | India News

NEW DELHI: RLSP president Upendra Kushwaha stepped down as minister of point out for human useful resource enhancement on Monday in a transfer that could trigger a realignment of political equations in Bihar.

Kushwaha was reportedly disappointed above the seat-sharing deal in Bihar for the Lok Sabha election future 12 months and experienced been threatening to close his party’s association with the BJP-led NDA authorities.

Earlier in the working day, Kushwaha experienced mentioned that he will not take part in the NDA assembly at Parliament Dwelling advanced slated to be held at 4pm.

The Rashtriya Lok Samta Celebration chief has been targeting the BJP and Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar, a important ally of the ruling occasion, for months.

He has been upset with the BJP immediately after it asserted that the RLSP would not be given additional than two seats in the 2019 Lok Sabha election, even as it went out of way to accommodate Kumar by agreeing that the saffron get together and the JD(U) would fight equal variety of seats.

The RLSP may well be a part of arms with the opposition, which incorporates Lalu Prasad’s RJD and the Congress.